Monte-Cristos Daughter

Monte-Cristo's Daughter, by
Edmund Flagg

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Title: Monte-Cristo's Daughter
Author: Edmund Flagg
Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23184]
Language: English
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MONTE-CRISTO'S DAUGHTER.
SEQUEL TO

ALEXANDER DUMAS'
GREAT NOVEL, THE "COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO," AND
CONCLUSION OF "EDMOND DANTÈS."
BY
EDMUND FLAGG
* * * * *
"MONTE-CRISTO'S DAUGHTER," a wonderfully brilliant, original,
exciting and absorbing novel, is the Sequel to "The Count of
Monte-Cristo," Alexander Dumas' masterwork, and the continuation
and conclusion of that great romance, "Edmond Dantès." It possesses
rare power, unflagging interest and an intricate plot that for
constructive skill and efficient development stands unrivalled. Zuleika,
the beautiful daughter of Monte-Cristo and Haydée, is the heroine, and
her suitor, the Viscount Giovanni Massetti, an ardent, impetuous young
Roman, the hero. The latter, through a flirtation with a pretty
flower-girl, Annunziata Solara, becomes involved in a maze of
suspicion that points to him as an abductor and an assassin, causes his
separation from Zuleika and converts him into a maniac. The
straightening out of these tangled complications constitutes the main
theme of the thrilling book. The novel abounds in ardent love scenes
and stirring adventures. The Count of Monte-Cristo figures largely in it,
and numerous Monte-Cristo characters are introduced.
"MONTE-CRISTO'S DAUGHTER" is the latest addition to Petersons'
famous series, consisting of "The Count of Monte-Cristo," "Edmond
Dantès," "The Countess of Monte-Cristo," "The Wife of Monte-Cristo,"
and "The Son of Monte-Cristo."
* * * * *
NEW YORK:
WM. L. ALLISON COMPANY

PUBLISHERS.

CONTENTS
Chapter. Page. I. MONTE-CRISTO AND THE PRIMA DONNA 21
II. A STRANGELY SENT EPISTLE 33
III. THE INTRUDER IN THE CONVENT GARDEN 45
IV. A STORMY INTERVIEW 57
V. ANNUNZIATA SOLARA 69
VI. THE POWER OF A NAME 81
VII. IN THE PEASANT'S HUT 91
VIII. A SYLVAN IDYL 101
IX. THE ABDUCTION 112
X. THE COUNTESS OF MONTE-CRISTO 130
XI. THE BEGGAR AND HIS MATES 142
XII. FATHER AND DAUGHTER 156
XIII. MORCERF'S ADVENTURE 166
XIV. ZULEIKA AND MME. MORREL 183
XV. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING 195
XVI. AMID THE COLOSSEUM'S RUINS 206
XVII. PEPPINO'S STORY 218

XVIII. MORE OF PEPPINO'S STORY 228
XIX. THE MANIAC OF THE COLOSSEUM 238
XX. THE ISLE OF MONTE-CRISTO 248
XXI. ZULEIKA LEARNS THE TRUTH 264
XXII. THE WONDROUS PHYSICIAN 274
XXIII. A MODERN MIRACLE 285
XXIV. A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER 296
XXV. A VISIT TO THE REFUGE 306
XXVI. VAMPA AND MONTE-CRISTO 316
XXVII. THE BANDITS' REPRISALS 326
XXVIII. THE RAID ON THE BANDITS 336
XXIX. VAMPA'S TRIAL 346
XXX. JOY UNBOUNDED 363

MONTE-CRISTO'S DAUGHTER.
SEQUEL TO ALEXANDER DUMAS' GREAT NOVEL, "THE COUNT
OF MONTE-CRISTO," AND CONTINUATION AND CONCLUSION
OF "EDMOND DANTÈS."
CHAPTER I.
MONTE-CRISTO AND THE PRIMA DONNA.
The Count of Monte-Cristo was in Rome. He had hired one of the
numerous private palaces, the Palazzo Costi, situated on a broad

thoroughfare near the point where the Ponte St. Angelo connects Rome
proper with that transtiberine suburb known as the Leonine City or
Trastavere. The impecunious Roman nobility were ever ready to let
their palaces to titled foreigners of wealth, and Ali, acting for the Count,
had experienced no difficulty in procuring for his master an abode that
even a potentate might have envied him. It was a lofty, commodious
edifice, built of white marble in antique architectural design, and
commanded from its ample balconies a fine view of the Tiber and its
western shore, upon which loomed up that vast prison and citadel, the
Castle of St. Angelo, and the largest palace in the world, the Vatican.
The Count of Monte-Cristo had always liked Rome because of its
picturesque, mysterious antiquity, but his present mission there had
nothing whatever to do with his individual tastes. He had fixed himself
for a time in the Eternal City that his daughter Zuleika, Haydée's[1]
child, might finish her education at a famous convent school conducted
under the auspices of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Heart.
Zuleika was fifteen years of age, but looked much older, having the
early maturity of the Greeks, whose ardent blood, on her dead mother's
side, flowed in her youthful veins. She had attained her full height, and
was tall and well-developed. She strongly resembled her mother,
possessing brilliant beauty of the dreamy, voluptuous oriental type. Her
hair was abundant and black as night. She had dark, flashing eyes,
pearly teeth,